Royal Scots Greys

The Royal Scots Greys were a cavalry regiment of the British Army from 1707 to 1971. The regiment was founded in 1678 as a Scottish regiment, and they were nicknamed the "Grey Dragoons" for riding on grey horses. The Scots Greys fought in the War of the Spanish Succession, the War of the Austrian Succession, the Seven Years' War, the French Revolutionary Wars, the Napoleonic Wars, the Crimean War, the Mahdist War, the Second Boer War, World War I, World War II, and the Aden Emergency. In 1815, at the Battle of Waterloo, William Ponsonby led the Scots Greys in a famous charge against the French, and the Scots Greys suffered heavy losses at the hands of French losses before being repulsed.